SOCI 142gm Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sol Price, Oscar Lewis, Working Poor
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Bring a paper copy + email an electronic copy to him. 16 different neighborhoods suffered from floods: vietnamese people came to city heights because it was a common site to place to go, top crime rates in city heights out of all cities in san diego, sol price. Side effect to pouring money to improve a neighborhood is that the housing prices going up displacement is inevitable. Oscar lewis (reading) - the culture of poverty: culture: perpetuate poverty, characteristics, difference: cop and being poor. Culture -- passed on from generation to generation: cop = the major way we understand poverty in the us, characteristics of culture of poverty: very strong present time orientation. Focus on the now with little ability to defer gratification or plan for the future. As students, we have the ability to defer gratification: causes of poverty: culture individual and group factors, us: meritocracy, structure societal and institutional factors.
